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Pioneering US$25 million Renegade Rum Distillery begins production

This story was posted 2 years ago
6 October 2020
in Agriculture/Fisheries, Business, PRESS RELEASE
3 min. read
Renegade Rum Team
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The long-awaited first spirit has finally flowed from the US$25 million Renegade Rum Distillery, Mark Reynier’s pioneering terroir-driven rum project in Grenada.

Located in Meadows, Conference, Renegade Rum is a state-of-the-art distillery – the first of its scale to have been designed from the ground up for terroir-bred sugarcane.

As well as cutting-edge still design and digital logistics, Renegade Rum Distillery is built on sophisticated technology for air filtration and water purification of waste streams, thus ensuring distilling systems run in rhythm with natural systems.

Renegade Rum Distillery is the vision of Mark Reynier, CEO of the pioneering terroir-driven Waterford Distillery in Ireland, and who resurrected the Islay distillery of Bruichladdich in 2001.

Using the same methodology as France’s greatest vignerons, Reynier’s ambition is to create the world’s most profound rum by extracting flavours from Grenada’s isolated parcels of sugarcane grown on the diverse and fertile volcanic terroirs, with complete individuality from cane to cask.

In the face of severe Covid-19 restrictions and consequent ban of commissioning experts, the distillery’s vast components from 10 different countries, including mill, horizontal fermentors and pot and column stills, were commissioned by the home-grown Renegade Rum team under remote guidance. Under the exceptional guidance of Director Graham Williams, CaneCo Director of Agriculture Bertrand John, Head Distiller, Devon Date and Chief Engineer, Eric Ringo and bolstered by the tireless efforts of the rest of the Renegade and CaneCo teams, the Renegade Rum Distillery has gone from a vision to a fully-fledged, local operation.

CEO Mark Reynier with son, Ruari, filling barrel number 1

On the afternoon of 21 September 2020, after milling sugarcane grown on the La Sagesse farm, Head Distiller, Devon Date, made the cut to hearts – and the distillery was finally making Renegade Rum.

CEO Mark Reynier said: “I started planning the project in June 2015 after an initial exploratory trip to the island. Immediately I felt this was the right home for Renegade after a fruitless 10-year search. It has been a veritable rollercoaster of a ride since then and several times I was on the point of giving up – frustrated by the lack of progress, dead ends and delays. Several times I wondered whether I had bitten off more than I could chew.

“We had the chance to make something really special here, with the latest thinking, drawing on our distilling experience from Scotland and Ireland to support the unique underpinning Renegade philosophy: rum defined by Grenada’s geology, farm by farm, field by field.

“Unusually this project has been both back to front and upside down: first we had to propagate cane where none existed to prove it was worthwhile building a distillery; then we had to design it backwards, from the end waste streams back to the incoming cane.

“Now we have a landmark, state-of-the-art-distillery, the envy of the industry, built and run by Grenadians to use Grenadian cane – the veritable spirit of Grenada. After all the blood, tears, sweat of determination and technical ingenuity – not to mention a global pandemic – we are delighted that the Renegade Rum Distillery is alive.”

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Comments 5

  1. John Thomas says:
    2 years ago

    What a useless, nonconstructive endeavour. When will we learn? The people who claim they represent Indigenous Grenadians’ interest must be mad or downright stupid.

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    • Neill Springle says:
      2 years ago

      I’m with you John Thomas on this one… We are celebrating ANOTHER alcohol manufacturer. We need more diversified afro-businesses in Grenada, not these vanity label type industries. So much fallow land in Grenada with no extensive planning. My poor little country.

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      • Joe public says:
        2 years ago

        Then stop typing silly comments and do something for your country!

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      • Winston James says:
        2 years ago

        People like yourself and john and many others will sit on the sidelines and condemn everything that happens in grenada but not contribute to its development. Here’s my challenge to you guys, as a grenadian myself, how much money are you willing to put out so we can start a business that will be 100% owned by grenadians. I’m waiting on your answer.

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        • Jojhn jjThomas says:
          2 years ago

          Winston, the problem with you and too many other Indigenous Grenadians, including the so-called politicians, is that you are waiting on some saviour from a distant land to come solve our problems. The world does not like that.

          By the way, no incentives or given to Indigenous Grenadians going into business by our so-called representatives.

          What is producing more and more rum going to do for us?

          Reply

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